From the Island Owner to the King

the next morning.

Chen Rui got up early in the morning, washed briefly, and finished breakfast.

The tour guide took Chen Rui to the train station in Kaesong. The train station is very old, the walls are painted with white white ash, there is no glass, there is no LED display board, and there is no directional arrow that we commonly see in public places, green luminous signs at the safety exit , At first glance, it is a piece of earth gray, with no other color.

If you remove the two Korean characters and ignore the Korean characters, Kaesong Station is no different from any Chinese hill station.

The train station is full of adoration for the Kims and their sons, and the walls are full of portraits of three generations of the Kim family, '21! Pig! Pig! Island! Novel .zuzudo. Long live the sun of the century, General Kim Jong-il! ' 'Chairman Kim Il Sung is always with us! ''How is Kim Jong Un,' these slogans are like psoriasis advertisements on telephone poles in small and medium-sized cities in China, these and the leader statues and immortality towers, themed ideological buildings, and North Korean books, TV, radio, and Even all paper documents, propaganda of the three-generation Kim family cult, constitute the foundation of the Kim dynasty's rule over North Korea, a population of 25 million.

In the morning, at 10:30, Chen Rui finally got on the train. The North Korean train was very broken, very, very broken. The green train was just fine. The outer skin of the carriage was rusted from the inside like the North Korean house. Layers of green paint make it look like the entire train is bulging as if it will peel off at any time.

The car Chen Rui sat in was specially used to transport international friends, so there were private compartments, similar to domestic sleeper cars. But there are three or four wide seats on each side. There are also North Korean nationals on this lying train. They had already boarded the train, but were segregated in other carriages.

The carriages of ordinary people in North Korea are no different from the hard seats in China, and they are also very crowded.

The train has departed.

Sitting on the train, there is no Internet, and no one chats. Since a political commissar is next to it, it is very interesting to chat with the tour guide. If you listen to the tour guide, you will talk. 'North Korea is a great country', 'Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il is the sun of North Korea, guiding us the way forward', 'Kim Jong-un leads us to happiness', over and over again, you can't show it on your face yet Get impatient, and you'll get very bored too.

Chen Rui tilted his head and looked at the scene outside the window, so he could pass the time.

North Korean dwellings are not as backward as we imagined. Dilapidated, very clean. It is very neat, but all houses are a mold, no matter how many floors of houses, all have gray-white cement walls, and the skin is wrinkled and uneven, as if it was bulging or mildewed and then randomly brushed with a layer of grout, there is no air conditioner outdoor unit. A kind of thing, the balcony is not closed, but there are a few pots of flowers, which makes people feel nervous when they see it, for fear of death after the wind blows.

Many houses are painted "How about Kim Il Sung,

The slogan of how Kim Jong Il is, how Kim Jong Un is” is similar to the Chinese countryside in the 1980s, which is similar to “If you want to be rich, have fewer children and plant more trees; if you want to prosper, you must raise fish, pigs, and ducks. ”, the same slogan as ‘the country prosperes, every man is responsible;’.

The train passed Kaesong, and outside the window, it was the North Korean countryside.

Like Kaesong, the North Korean countryside does not give people the feeling of a 'natural village', because almost all the houses in the villages are very new, and the houses in the villages are almost the same, unlike the natural villages in China, where each village has New houses, old houses, all kinds of houses, can see the traces of the natural development of the village.

Before entering North Korea, Chen Rui learned that North Korean housing is allocated for free by the state. Although a lot of expenses are saved, you can only obey the allocation. There is no choice, and individuals have no right to build a house by themselves. The neat and tidy villages have a depressing atmosphere of 'arrangement' everywhere.

North Korea is really full of crops, even the small ditch beside the railway, which is full of rice and corn, but many North Koreans are still hungry, because the yield is not determined by the planting area

It's a bit boring to watch, but it's actually not much to see. Similar villages, similar houses, and similar North Korean peasants, after watching for a long time, you will also be tired.

After 12 noon, the tour guide used a small cart to bring Chen Rui's lunch.

There are quite a lot of dishes in a box, such as cucumber chili sauce, pickled radish, fried fish nuggets, pork slices, egg rolls, cabbage pickles, a box of rice and a bottle of mineral water.

The dishes are cold, as if North Koreans like to eat cold rice.

Chen Rui started to eat.

Yesterday's pork, today's pork, and the pork Chen Rui ate in North Korea were all a little sweet.

after eating.

It just so happened that the commissar was not there, so I don’t know where to go.

Chen Rui asked the two tour guides about 'North Korean secrets', and Chen Rui asked whether Kim Jong-un will reform! After all, Kim Jong-un studied in Switzerland and accepted the Western ideology and political system. The little girl was surprised when she heard it, and repeatedly asked, "Who said it? Where did it say it?" Apparently, they had never mentioned these things in their own country, and it must be more than this that should be concealed by the North Korean government.

So Chen Rui didn't ask these "North Korean secrets" questions. Chen Rui asked them what the daily ration of food for North Koreans was. After biting their ears for a while, the little girl and the old tour guide said, 700 grams.

Chen Rui asked if North Korea has a private car? It's the old tour guide's turn to answer, yes! When asked about the price, the two bit their ears for a while, and finally replied to Chen Rui that it was $7,000.

Chen Rui continued to ask a question, whether there are private self-employed businesses in North Korea, the little girl categorically said no, and all businesses are state-run. Chen Rui pointed out that there are many stalls selling things on the side of the road, obviously private traders. The little girl repeated the statement that there is no private economy in North Korea and everything is a state-owned business, but the voice is much quieter. North Koreans must be concerned about this incident. She knows it well, it's just that the state requires her to lie.

Afterwards, the little girl and Chen Rui talked about North Korea's free policy "medical care is free" (no serious illness), "housing allocation" (Pyongyang citizens can be allocated 60-180 square meters of housing according to their status, but the buildings 10 Fang Yiti), education is free (four years in primary school, six years in middle school regardless of middle and high school, but in the third grade, you must choose a study direction, half-day study in the morning, and training in the Children’s Palace in the afternoon), this may be the only thing that North Koreans are proud of. thing. (To be continued.)